Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...platform calls for increased community support, efforts to increased the quality of teaching in the Cambridge schools, and assuring equal opportunity for students at different schools in the city and from different backgrounds. Candidates said that for the most part, these are not issues on which CCA candidates and independents disagree...
...exercised only for a few specific purposes. Such purposes include removing an enemy's capacity to wage war and making a show of strength designed to persuade an adversary to stop its belligerent ways. Neither rationale lay behind the order to four Navy destroyers to shell an Iranian oil platform...
Jensen first met Dukakis in 1976, when Jensen served as deputy director of the Democratic Party's platform committee and Dukakis chaired the platform drafting subcommittee...
...wing disciples for a few flaming defeats that will polarize the political landscape for 1988, or building the coalitions necessary to preserve his legacy. Baker's goal of carving a niche for Reagan as a national political teacher during his final year requires that the President have a secure platform from which to lecture. Baker must show that his nonconfrontational approach can produce results that will prevent the White House from becoming nothing more than a stagnant pond for lame ducks...
Maher also said that he does not think the issue is as important or divisive as the CCA platform has made it seem...